Demo of creating JavaEE applications hosting ObjectGrid

ObjectGrid is designed to work in J2SE environments as well as run within WebSphere application server. WebSphere clusters can be easily used to host ObjectGrids and then clients can access the data stored within that grid. Clients can be applications within the same cluster using servlets or EJBs, J2SE clients or J2EE clients in different clusters or cells.  This allows large datasets to be stored in the total memory of all cluster member JVMs. This can be used for XTP type applications, network attached caches or to host HTTP sessions. Several clusters can also be used as single grid even if the clusters are in different cells. This allows advanced topologies that we can go over in future blog entries.

This is a set of four screen casts. I recorded them at 1280x1024 so hopefully it fits on most screens. The intent is to show how easy it is to create a JavaEE EAR file and then add a couple of xml files to it which will cause ObjectGrid to start a container within the application server JVM the EAR is eventually deployed to. The end result is it shows how ObjectGrid can be embedded in WebSphere to provide a complete environment for hosting an objectgrid within a WebSphere cluster.

The demo uses a WebSphere V6.0.2.23 ND application server that has XD DataGrid (ObjectGrid) installed on top of it. The first video shows how to create the EAR in Rational Application Developer V6.0 and then export the EAR to the file system.

Download 01RADEARDemo.mov

The next video shows how to start an ND cell on my laptop, define a single node. The cell topology on my laptop will be a single dmgr, a node agent and two cluster member JVMs. I'm using a 1GB RAM virtual machine running Windows XP to host the demo.

Download 02StartDMGR.mov

Next, we will show how to create the cluster and add two cluster members. We will then deploy the EAR file that we exported in the first step to the newly created cluster.

Download 03MakeClusterDeploy.mov

Finally, we will start the cluster members on the command line and show how to look at the SystemOut.log file from the cluster member to look for ObjectGrid messages that show that the grid is working and fails over correctly.

Download 04StartCluster.mov

Comments

[Dental Spa]

Thanks for the information. Any idea if this would work on an AS/400 (OS/400)?

Thanks,

Terry

[Billy]

Should work just fine on a 400.